Can you have the benefits of fasting (and more!) without starving? You’ve probably heard that fasting means giving up food completely, enduring hunger, risking muscle loss, and hoping you can stick it out long enough to see results. But what if you could eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, AND snacks while your body still thinks it’s fasting?
In this episode, Renee Fitton, Director of Education at Prolon and a leader in nutrition science and longevity, reveals how fasting mimicking lets you get all the benefits of a 5-day water fast without the hunger, muscle loss, or safety risks. If you’ve struggled with traditional fasting or want a more sustainable way to support weight loss, autophagy, and even reverse your biological age, this episode will change how you think about fasting forever.
Listen now and start fasting smarter today!
Renee breaks down the groundbreaking science behind fasting mimicking, explaining how you can trigger the same cellular benefits as water fasting while still eating real food. You’ll discover why this approach protects your muscle (unlike water fasting or weight loss drugs), how it can reverse your biological age by 2.5 years in just three months, and why adding even a single stalk of celery could sabotage your results. Plus, she shares surprising research showing how fasting mimicking restored taste and smell in people who’d lost these senses for years.
Fasting mimicking allows your body to enter a fasted state while still consuming food throughout the day. Unlike water-only fasting, this approach uses specifically designed nutrition that stays below the threshold of your nutrient-sensing pathways, keeping you in autophagy and ketosis. This makes the profound benefits of prolonged fasting (cellular cleanup, fat loss, and regeneration) finally achievable, safe, and sustainable for most people.
Recent research published in Nature showed that just three cycles of fasting mimicking (five days a month for three months) achieved a 2.5-year biological age reversal. This measurement considers multiple markers associated with healthy aging, not just one biomarker. Projections suggest that doing this protocol three times per year for 20 years could result in an 11-year biological age reversal, offering significant longevity benefits with minimal time investment.
Over a dozen clinical trials using DEXA and MRI analysis have demonstrated that fasting mimicking protects muscle mass while promoting fat-focused weight loss. This is critical for longevity, strength, immunity, and metabolic health. Unlike water fasting or GLP-1 weight loss drugs, where up to 40% of weight loss comes from muscle, fasting mimicking ensures you lose fat without sacrificing lean tissue, and most people maintain about 75% of their weight loss even three months after stopping the protocol.
Whether you want to lose weight safely, turn back your biological clock, or finally make fasting work for your lifestyle, this episode gives you the science-backed tools to do it without deprivation or risk. Renee shares exactly how to maintain your results long-term and why this approach might be even better than water fasting.
Listen now and start fasting smarter today!
RENEE FITTON, MS, RD is a leader in the intersection of nutrition, healthcare, and education. As Director of Education at Prolon, she shapes sales strategies and equips healthcare practitioners with cutting-edge insights into nutrition and longevity. Her expertise in evidence-based practices and nutritional science has made her a trusted authority. Renee is dedicated to advancing the role of nutrition in revolutionizing healthcare, blending scientific rigor with a compassionate approach to wellness.
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